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Firefox for android ftw (thelemmy.club)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/androidmemes@lemdro.id
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Chad Firefox on android with extensions vs plain chrome in android
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[–] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

Brave is owned by a horrible dude. I’d recommend Orion by Kagi instead. It supports desktop extensions for both Chromium and Firefox. The ones I use at least function perfectly fine.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    I did mention Brave to try to elicit different recommendations. I'll likely give Orion a try soon, although it does seem newer and less stable from what I've seen just looking it up now.

    That being said, is there anything about that guy other than his trying to make money by tying crypto wallets and so on into the Brave browser?

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    I don’t get why you’ve been downvoted. Asking for more information is perfectly fine.

    Brave has had a history of really slimy behaviour.They used Tom Scott’s name, without his consent or involvement to ask for crypto donations. They’ve hijacked referral links, and then gone all “whoops that was an accident.” You literally can’t do that kind of thing by accident.

    Brendan Eich was caught donating $1000 (in two batches of $500, so hardly an accident) to California Proposition 8 in 2008. When called out on this, he doubled down on it, and shortly after he resigned from Mozilla. After that he founded Brave, and gathered money from investors. Among those investors was Peter Thiel’s investment fund “Founders Fund.” Thiel being co-founder of PayPal alongside Elon Musk and others, and is well known for the dystopian horror company that is Palantir.

    So that’s the kind of company Brave is.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Thank you for all the links, but nothing is more persuasive than his Wikipedia page.

    I guess I could look past one or two of those things. But his support for Prop 8 and his publicly criticizing masking during the pandemic are big no-gos for me. One shows that he lacks basic empathy, and the other shows that he thinks highly of his uninformed opinion, even to the point of betting other people's lives on it.

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